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Julius Thomas

9 Feb , 2015
A brief thought on Julius Thomas and the Broncos. And I will concede it’s early to be weighing in on this topic...

2012 running back draft class: yikes

9 Feb , 2015
It's said that you need three years to accurately judge an incoming rookie...

Rookie Quarterbacks

6 Feb , 2015
Three rookie quarterbacks played significant snaps last season. First-rounders Blake Bortles and Teddy Bridgewater and second-rounder Derek Carr handled most of the work for their teams in 2014...

Greatest quarterback ever

3 Feb , 2015
When looking at the great quarterbacks – specifically, Joe Montana and Tom Brady – the tendency is to focus on the championships...

Super Bowl XLIX

1 Feb , 2015
Checking the numbers … In the regular season, there were 335 pass plays inside the 3-yard line. None of those passes were intercepted...

Top-10 Defenses in Super Bowls

30 Jan , 2015
New England and Seattle both ranked in the top 10 in terms of points allowed last season. Seattle allowed a league-low 15.9 points per game, while New England gave up 19.6 (8th-best)...

Super Bowl XLIX

29 Jan , 2015
New England led the league in scoring during the regular season, while Seattle allowed fewer points than any other team...

Super Bowl XLIX

28 Jan , 2015
Is there something different about the Super Bowl game? It’s watched by more people, of course, and there are all the extra hoopla before, after and during the game...

LeGarrette Blount

28 Jan , 2015
Is it the player or the team around him that makes a successful running back? Let's examine the case of LeGarrette Blount, a running back who throughout his career has been pretty ordinary with his...

Presidents and the Super Bowl

26 Jan , 2015
I was going to try to put together a trivia question on this front, but I couldn’t figure out quite how to word it. Four universities have produced both a U.S...

Defensive and Special Teams Touchdowns

25 Jan , 2015
The Eagles led the league with 11 defensive and special teams touchdowns last season. That ties with Kansas City for most of any team in the last five years...

Jermaine Kearse

23 Jan , 2015
Kearse didn’t have a great game against Green Bay (four balls thrown to him were intercepted) but he caught a 35-yard pass in overtime to win it, and he did so with a defensive back hanging all ove...

Brady vs. top pass defenses

23 Jan , 2015
The Seattle Seahawks had the league's top-ranked pass defense in 2014, and have done a real number against elite quarterbacks the last two seasons, frustrating the likes of Peyton Manning, Aaron Ro...

Super losses

21 Jan , 2015
New England lost 41-14 at Kansas City back in Week 4, and that sure seems like a long time ago now...

Seahawks against top passers

20 Jan , 2015
Russell Wilson is 11-0 against Super Bowl winning quarterbacks, which is pretty remarkable. Eight of those games were played at home, which helps...

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